Engagement

The Urban Water Institute works with university researchers and industry and government partners to connect the public to subject matter experts and current resources, public policy and best management practices.

More than 100 fourth- through sixth-grade students from the Shawnee Mission School District participated in a lab/field experience to learn more about the quality of water on the Kansas State University Olathe campus, April 23 and 24.

Kansas State University Olathe, in partnership with One Health Kansas, offered a hands-on professional development in-service program on the awareness and understanding of the interconnections among human, animal and environmental health, June 11-14, at the Olathe campus.

The in-service program included a day all about water, which included anon-site visit to the Johnson County Blue River Wastewater Plant, the BlueValley Wilderness Science Center and rain garden, aswell as stream monitoring with the US Geological Survey, and acoagulation experiment in the lab.